Welcome from the Conference Chair

It is a great pleasure to welcome you to the 1st International Electronic Conference on the Hydrological Cycle (CHyCle-1), whose main aim is to advance towards a better understanding of the hydrological cycle, including its observed changes and projections under future climate.

As the first conference in an annual series, the range of topics will be very general, but covering mainly the following subtopics:

i) Global Distribution of Water Vapor: evaporation and precipitation, water vapor flux and divergence, long-range transport of water vapor,

ii) Source-Sink Relationships: methods used to establish source-receptor relationships, analytical or box models, numerical water vapor tracers, physical water vapor tracers (isotopes),

iii) Global Source and Sink Regions of Moisture: oceanic sources, terrestrial sources,

iv) Extreme Events: Atmospheric Rivers, floods, evaporation Hot Spots, anomalies of moisture transport linked to Drought Periods,

v) Low-Level Jets, Warm Pools, Monsoons and their role in the transport of moisture,

vi) the identification and characteristics of moisture sources, megadroughts, and megapluvials within the scope of Palaeoclimatic studies,

vii) implications of Climate Change for Hydrology: changes in water vapor, changes in large-scale circulation related to moisture transport, changes in precipitation, aridity, evapotranpiration, soil moisture, streamflow and other usable water sources (snow, lake levels, reservoirs, glaciers, etc.).

viii) impacts of climate change in Soil Hydrological Processes, with special focus on forest hydrology, including experimental plots and catchments.

ix) Eco-hydrological modelling at different spatial scales.

x) Water resources management and impacts of climate change, including adaptation strategies, with special focus in the Mediterranean region.

This is a virtual conference sponsored by the open access journal Water (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/water)

The participation is free of charge—both for authors and attendees. Selected papers will be published in the journal Water, through invitation from the CHyCle-1 conference chair.

Water (ISSN 2073-4441; CODEN: WATEGH) is an open access journal on water science and technology, including the ecology and management of water resources, and is published monthly online by MDPI.

Open Access: free for readers, with publishing fees paid by authors or their institutions.

High visibility: indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Scopus (Elsevier) and other databases.

Rapid publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 29 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 7 days (median values for papers published in this journal in 2016).

Impact Factor: 1.687 (2015); 5-Year Impact Factor: 1.912 (2015)

Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "Start New Submission" function once logged into system.

1. Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 150-300 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 25 September 2017.
2. The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the CHyCle-2017. All authors will be notified by 1 October 2017 about the acceptance of their abstract.
3. If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit his/her manuscript until the submission deadline of 5 November 2017.
4. The manuscripts and presentations will be available on CHyCle-2017 homepage for discussion and rating during the time of the conference 12-16 November 2017.
5. Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. After the conference, the authors are recommended to submit an extended version of the proceeding papers to the Water Special issue with 10% discount on the APC.

Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:

• Title
• Full author names
• Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
• Abstract
• Keywords
• Introduction
• Methods
• Results and Discussion
• Conclusions
• (Acknowledgements)
• References

Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. There is no page limit on the length, although authors are asked to keep their papers as concise as possible.

Authors must use the Microsoft Word template to prepare their manuscript. Using the template file will substantially shorten the time to complete copy-editing and publication of accepted manuscripts. Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.

CHyCle-2017 template

• Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
• Formatting / Style: Papers should be prepared following the style of CHyCle-2017 template. The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
• Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
• Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and a explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.

For further enquiries please contact the Conference Secretariat.

It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section. It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.

MDPI AG, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI AG the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).